Word: unpopular
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...four years. He would rely on that measure to provide nearly one-third of all the new taxes he will need to finance his program to reduce the deficit and increase public investment. The stratagem is characteristically Clintonian: an apparently painless (for Americans) way of generating revenue without raising unpopular levies like the gasoline tax or touching popular spending programs like Medicare...
...weeks ago, on his campaign plane, Clinton allowed himself a moment of introspection about what his election would mean to a generation whose first political act was both protesting -- and serving in -- an unpopular war. "If I win," he said softly, "it will finally close the book on Vietnam." Whether marching in the streets or marching in uniform, Vietnam introduced baby boomers to the sober realities of power. Another generation chose Vietnam as a battleground, but in very personal terms Clinton and his peers had to face the consequences of that decision. Now a child of postwar prosperity has ascended...
Full randomization is unpopular with undergraduates because they want as much control over their housing situation as possible. It is time, however, to create a system that is good for the University as a whole, and not for individual students...
Resentment of the political establishment weighed heavily too. Brian Mulroney, already the most unpopular Prime Minister in the history of Canadian polling, was a big loser. According to one survey, his campaigning for the accord created twice as many no votes as yesses. Aboriginal peoples -- Indians and Inuit (Eskimos) -- also suffered badly. The rejected constitution would have granted them greatly increased self-government...
...positioned himself as an unabashed supporter of free trade, as a man who will uphold that longstanding American ideal against the waffling of Gov. Bill "Pattern" Clinton and the protectionist heresy of Ross Perot. He has even said that he doesn't care if his free trade stance is unpopular, because he knows it to be right...